Grade 6 7 8
Ferro fluid Scientific Tuesdays
Using Observation skills watch video
Demonstrate – observation
Choose one girl turn her back to class and then choose another student and ask student with back to class what color is the top of the other student, do this again with one more
Choose one boy student and repeat the same
Give example of one friend describing a group of kids walking on street that he/she saw the day before – what would he/she notice:
How many
Age
Gender
Clothes
Hair
Any accessories, back packs, jewelry, phones, etc.
How tall
Walking, running
Explain that observations is not just seeing, its noticing, remembering and recalling
Watch the video and observe differences and similarities of cornstarch and water experiment:
Two ingredients
Color
Texture
Consistency
Manipulative - root word mano - means hands in Spanish
suspension
After video have students list similarities and differences on whiteboard
Discuss cornstarch and water is a suspension -
Use analogy of students in a class prodded by teacher stay together, when relaxed they become all over the place, then ultimately they are suspended http://www.kidzone.ws/science/cornstarch.htm - has definition: A mixture of cornstarch and water make what is known as a suspension. When you squeeze a Cornstarch Suspension it really feels like a solid because its molecules line up. But it looks like a liquid and acts like a liquid when no one is pressing on it because the molecules relax. This is another state of matter, called a suspension (It can act like a liquid, or, when pressed like a solid.).
Grade 5
Select books / read
Crossword of library vocabulary words
Grade 3 /4
Select books / read
Grade PreK - 2
Read Dora book to class
Color sheet – Dora
EXPERIMENT (continued from week 1)
Grade 6 7 8
Ferro fluid Scientific Tuesdays
Using Observation skills watch video
Demonstrate – observation
Choose one girl turn her back to class and then choose another student and ask student with back to class what color is the top of the other student, do this again with one more
Choose one boy student and repeat the same
Give example of one friend describing a group of kids walking on street that he/she saw the day before – what would he/she notice:
How many
Age
Gender
Clothes
Hair
Any accessories, back packs, jewelry, phones, etc.
How tall
Walking, running
Explain that observations is not just seeing, its noticing, remembering and recalling
Watch the video and observe differences and similarities of cornstarch and water experiment:
Two ingredients
Color
Texture
Consistency
Manipulative - root word mano - means hands in Spanish
suspension
After video have students list similarities and differences on whiteboard
Discuss cornstarch and water is a suspension -
Use analogy of students in a class prodded by teacher stay together, when relaxed they become all over the place, then ultimately they are suspended
http://www.kidzone.ws/science/cornstarch.htm - has definition:
A mixture of cornstarch and water make what is known as a suspension. When you squeeze a Cornstarch Suspension it really feels like a solid because its molecules line up. But it looks like a liquid and acts like a liquid when no one is pressing on it because the molecules relax. This is another state of matter, called a suspension (It can act like a liquid, or, when pressed like a solid.).
Grade 5
Select books / read
Crossword of library vocabulary words
Grade 3 /4
Select books / read
Grade PreK - 2
Read Dora book to class
Color sheet – Dora